was at risk? i thought to myself, now we are in the fiction world. did that really change the number of jobs? the whole tone is based on elgin, illinois. i don t see all of a sudden left behind rust belt cities have been revived. dana: these types of reunion shows don t always work. greg: fuller house was a bomb. dana: you wonder what characters you liked from 20 years ago. what would that character be like today? greg: friends would be interesting. dana: there would be all sorts of things going on. kimberly: here we go right here. this is the new friends. schwimmer over here. juan: is roseanne the archie bunker of the 21st century?
anti-semitism. trying to become more popular among the british. that was something i discovered when i was doing research for the book for the list. and i encorporated that whole story in the story. i didn t know your family also came from britain. i didn t know that. came from east london. i ve gone back and found the roots, very different community. it s changed evolved so much over the years. but this is remarkable, jacob s oath. i want to say, to move from the nonfiction world to the fiction world, it s such a leap. i admire it so greatly. and thank you for sharing this with us for being so personal and for using all of your experiences in creating these wonderful characteristics. thanks, i appreciate it. thank you. great to see you. jacob s oath is the book. another great work from martin fletcher, our friend and colleague. that does it for this edition of
in the fiction world, garnering the support of literary giants, including toni morrison and salman rushdie. it touches on her own struggles and african-american immigrants forced to confront their roots. parents from ghana and nigeria who raise their children in america and struggle with cultural assimilation. looking to the windows of other homes on their block. the daughter describes the feeling. there was the sense in her house of an ongoing effort. a thing being built, a successful family with the six of them involved in the effort. all striving for the common goal, as yet unreached. the families in the windows were successful families already, had finished the heavy lifting generations ago, were not building or straining or making an effort. the goal had been reached. but besides performance, the portrayal of a successful american family never becomes a reality. instead, a tragic series of events splits the family apart